The Baby In The Condom
A discussion of the famous 'teardrop baby' that shows up on so many Abortion Opposition sites.

Viability_1
What do we mean by this term?  A chart outlining the possibilities of survival and associated medical challenges by gestational age.

Viability_2
What are the chances my baby will survive?  How can they be improved?
 

Birthweight Curves
When the claim is made that there is a survivor of a less than 22 week gestational age birth.  Sometimes looking at the chart will show that the claim is just too much out of the norm.

Expected Fetal Weight Chart
Like the Birthweight Curve this chart and the accompanying graph can be used to assess claims of very early survivors.

Fetal Size Chart - first 20 weeks.
The other necessary infomation if you are evaluating a claim of a very early birth survivor. It should be kept in mind that ethnicity will play a part in this but the chart will provide a starting point.

Keeping the WOMAN in the picture.
When you check the anti abortion sites you sometimes get the idea they have an attitude of "Woman! What woman? On site after site we see pictures of fetal development that emphasize the fetus while the primary part of the pregnancy unit is ignored.

The "When Does Life Begin" game.
Life is a continuum of course and whether we claim it 'began' back in the mists of herstory or we claim a particular life began when a fetus formed an ovary at about the 8th week the question really is not relevant.

Ectopic Pregnancy is not always Fallopian.
And occasionally a pregnancy survives an unusual gestation method.

Original  Article

How A Paradigm Can Affect Your Rights

Shortly after the monumental decision of the
Roe v Wade case one of the paradigms the justices had struggled with began to take a new meaning. The paradigm concerned whether the fetus is a separate organism or is actually a part of a woman's body.  The final acceptance of one paradigm is crucailly important for women's rights.

The Debunking of Lime 5 
In "Making Mountains Out of a Pebble" editor of the Body Politic magazine Anne Bower lays waste the famous attempt to vilify safe legal abortion, and in fact shows the book actually is a verification of the opposite of what it claims to expose.